] This post doesn't seem to have anything explicit about Jane Austen and her works. If you intended the connection to be made between your topic and JA, please expand a little further. If you are not interested in discussing Jane Austen in relation to the contents of your post, then you may wish to consider taking it over to Dregston Chronicle, a history board outside Pemberley which is happy to take such topics. Please take this link...

This is the post on the P&P board, written by Joan, too, which made me decide to ask about "the season". I realize JA was not a member of the aristocracy who took part in the official "high society" season, but her characters do take part in social activities according to the time of year, as this post shows, and I'm sure that their season would have followed along the lines of the aristocratic one.

] Mrs. Reynolds gives Lizzy and the Gardiners to understand that Darcy only spends 6 months of the year at Pemberley without being an MP. It was usual for members of the landed gentry to spend much of the winter in London - "the season" of social and cultural activites took place during the winter, and those who were able left London during the summer months when the stench of the sewers made staying in town most unappealing.